Do you know this?

You see and hear somebody doing something interesting, something beautiful, something you would like to do too.

You try.

It´s not what you had expected it to be, it´s not how you had expected it to be.

So you fiddle with your equipment.

On the occasion of publishing my new e-book “A Systematic Introduction to Making Generative Music With Modular Synths“ you can make use of the following offers and give-aways this week. All times and dates are Central European Summer Time (GMT + 2)

from now on until Tuesday, 10 August 24.00:

This is the programme of next week´s "Book Publishing Online Party". Changes can be made until Tuesday, 10 August 16.00 Central European Summer Time (GMT + 2).

The Programme of my “Book Publishing Celebration Week” as it is set so far:

All dates and times are Central European Summer Time (GMT + 2)

Tuesday, 10 August

Everybody who orders the book before August 10 gets the chance to win a 5-year download-all for free license.

Just donate the price of the book ($ 24.50) and write "Generative pre-order"

You can also win by sending in (to rofilm@seznam.cz) photographs or screenshots or videoclips or screen recordings of you working with modulars. You don´t need be seen in the photos etc. if you don´t like to. But hurry up: the doors close Tuesday, 10 August at 16.00 CET (GMT + 2).

… well, I´ve finished writing. I have to find the typing mistakes now, do some lay-out work (at least a bit of) and think of some kind of marketing.

But let me show you the content at least:

Chapter 0: About This Course And Some Words About

What Generative Music Is 6

Chapter 1: Real Randomness vs. Complex Cycles (and the combination of both) 10

   Chapter 1.1: LFOs 10

   Chapter 1.2: Other Devices Generating Regular Cycles 59

Dear Friends! Dear Community members! Dear Supporters!

My new ebook “A Systematic Introduction to Making Generative Music With Modular Synthesizers“ is going to be published 10 August 2021.

The book has grown to more than 300 pages so far, it already contains more than 100 video clips, some of which are up to 40 minutes long. There are more than 100 patch examples and more than 200 illustrations and graphics so far.

I´d been thinking of putting my experience with generative music into a book for quite a long time, when Covid-19 struck in a very brutal way here in the Czech republic. And with the virus came the probably most severe (and longest) lockdown the world has seen.

The lockdown, no social contacts, a lot of time at home, that all made it the right time to start writing at last. There are some great and wonderful videos on Youtube about the matter of generative music. Let me only name Omri Cohen´s videos, or Mylarmelodies. Great content. Wonderful collegues. Instructive examples.

You are

• a visual artist (painter, cartoonist, photographer, sculpturer …),
• or a writer,
• or an expresssionist dancer,
• or an actor performing your own programs

You want

to create your own music, your own sounds, your own audible events to add to your art.

What you know about creating music and designing sounds:

(next to) nothing

How I will help you:

The countdown starts right here and right now. What riddle is hiding behind all this?

The answer will be given in detail. It will be given here. It will be given in 5 days.

In the meantime: Think about the question in the headline.

See you in 5 days!

Rolf

Part 5 of my series about the Volca Modular is online now. A lot of patching and all details concerning the Source module followed by a systematic approach to modulations of all kinds including modulating the modulators to get complex CV signals. Details of the Utility unit and concluding notes (what has been forgotten to say in parts 1-4) about all units of the Volca Modular will prepare you for the final step in Video 6.

Content/Timeline:

0:00:00 Intro

0:01:34 Feedbacks in the Source Module and FM